Wednesday, October 13, 2010

MOOSE STORY

My friend, who knows the CEO for an animal rescue foundation, sent me this.

A baby moose was in distress in a creek. A man got him out of the creek; tried to find the mother and send him on his way, but the moose fell back into the creek, The man rescued him again, and sent him on his way, but this time the baby moose followed the man home.

The man's neighbor took these photos.

The pretty neighbor fell in love with the moose.

The man's dog liked the moose, and the moose liked the dog.

The pretty neighbor fed the moose every day for a few weeks.

The CEO from the rescue foundation visited, and saw that moose enjoyed being fed by the neighbor, and was doing very well, living with the man and his dog.

The CEO suggested it was time to move the moose to the foundation where there was a pen the moose could share with a fawn. The moose immediately liked the fawn.

Now the two of them will grow up together, till they're old enough and large enough to be released back into the wild. The man married the pretty neighbor and they and the dog are now living happily ever after.

HOW I GOT HERE

I started out as a modern dancer, contemporary, but balletic. I didn't want to be a swan, or a barefoot dancer. I wanted to dance to the music that thrilled me as a child, and made me want to be a dancer.

I began writing in the truck my first husband, Mark Ryder and I bought, in order to carry our set, props, and costumes for a long one-night-stands tour -- eighty-eighty performances in eighty-eight cities.

We were performing "Romeo and Juliet" nightly, but our marriage was breaking up. Every day while our stage manager drove us two-hundred miles or so to the next booking, I'd type a detailed description of last night -- what we did well, what we argued about, and a travelogue about the town, and comments from the people at the nightly party.

Recovering from the trip and the divorce, I sent my "car book" to a friend who said -- "Em, it's great,but ..." And that became rewrites, and another book. Then, my marriage to actor John Cullum, and then a play that got produced, and another book, big hopes because a famous agent loved it.The title and concept changed five times -- now it's been published, finally, as "Somebody, Woman of the Century." You can buy it, or read about it and my other five novels on Emily Frankel.com